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 EJ's POST #23 - COLLINGWOOD CAPERS (Chapter 1 of 3)

25/10/2016

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1  ̶  BLUE MOUNTAIN
   Just the other day, I reached Collingwood by traveling on a paved road all the way from Greenstone.  Collingwood is a community of 19,500 on the shore of Georgian Bay, Lake Huron.  Then I took a paved road to The Big Stink, also spelled T-O-R-O-N-T-O. 
   One hundred forty-six years ago, Colonel Garnet Wolseley left Toronto to quell the Métis Resistance in Red River, North-West Territories.  He and 1,200 armed men travelled by rail to Collingwood to embark on steamers bound for Prince Arthur's Landing on the west shore of Lake Superior.  They wanted to arrest one man, or hang him, whichever came first.
  My sister, Grace, lives in Collingwood.  She has retired there.  She doesn't remember Col. Wolsely, but she has never forgotten the magnificent ski runs that attracted her to Collingwood many decades ago.  The historical record shows that Wolseley was not interested in the skiing.
  I, on the other hand, have long been interested in Col. Wolseley.  And when I saw those ski runs, well . . . wow.  But, a country boy like me is easily impressed.
  Going to and from T.O. (The Big Stink), I spent a few hours in the Georgian Triangle, not to be confused with the Bermuda Triangle.  In the G.T., people mysteriously disappear for just a few hours.  Because.  There is just so much to see and do.  Bear with me as I roam through orchards of country, culture, and history.
  By the way, the G.T. offers orchards for over 30 different species of apple, including its signature Honeycrisp.  And I never got to taste one.  So much to see and do.
  When I arrived on Sunday, September 18, Grace whisked me away to The Spit (more on that later), the interminable shoreline of Georgian Bay, and the Wasaga Blues Festival (more on that later).
  Monday morning, she introduced me to Blue Mountain.  The mountain, as it happens, is green, not blue.  It is a section of the Niagara Escarpment, probably the predominant geological feature of all of Eastern Ontario, let alone of the Collingwood country.  The Escarpment begins in the east in New York State, allows five of the six Great Lakes to cascade over its lip at Niagara Falls, and extends westward to the Illinois-Wisconsin border.  And there it sat on Monday morning, smiling greenly on the city, and gazing out fondly over the great inland sea. 
  When we zipped along the foot of the mountain, I fairly gasped . . .
 
Read the full post with photos on E.J. Lavoie's Blog > http://bit.ly/2eiPj7V


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    E.J. Lavoie contributes a weekly column to Greenstone's Coffee Talk and the Nipigon-Red Rock Gazette.  The column can be read in its entirety on his blog, complete with images.  Just click the link at the end of each post.

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